Alice Sluiter De Boer mows her own lawn, bakes pies, drives herself around her rural town, and attends weekly church activities.
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These are the days of darkness in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Grief for the Unborn
I was thrilled to finally see an article on the grief of miscarriage (“Losses of the Heart,”
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My Spiritual mother, the Christian Reformed Church, turns 150 this year, and I anticipate the thankful celebration.
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A pastor was having an awful time with his congregation and eventually decided to pack it in.
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Scripture is infallible. my interpretation of it is not. Yours isn’t either.
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My father loved to tell the joke about the man who looked in the paper every morning to see if his name was in it.
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Mysteries make us curious. We want to know what happened, how, and why. But you say Christmas is not a mystery?
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Creation Care
Q: I hate diverting my focus from the joy of Christmas, but I’m troub
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GERRY SHUDDERED at the thought. She was facing her first Christmas without her husband.
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EXPECTING. We associate this seemingly innocent word with (among a good many other things) pregnancy.
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Losses of the Heart
Please convey my sincere thanks to Nathan Sneller for his beautifully honest article “Losses of the Hea
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A Sunday school teacher asked his class, “Who was the mother of Jesus?”
“Mary,” a child answered.
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HOW ARE YOU? I am fine (better than last month). Is it cold up there at the North Pole? I bet you worry about global warming.
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During World War II days, the Andrews Sisters made the Hit Parade with their song “Roll Out the Barrel” (. . .
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One fine day God told Moses to build a tabernacle—a house for God. God said, “Just build any old thing, Moses.
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I first arrived in the United States in October 1990.
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Church
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I hate the glitz and the busyness, the worries over spending too much, the cleaning, the hours spent in the kitchen trying to create the
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Racism
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To our great joy, Erin and I were expecting.
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Late one afternoon, my dad was driving down his fairly quiet residential street when he noticed that the older sedan driving in front of
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I’m not happy. I’m strung out. Thats’s not me.
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Our church bulletin announced the forthcoming annual art display in the all-purpose room.